Mission Statement
We enable customer success through sourcing, purchasing, and payment services to achieve best value and UNT System’s educational and research missions.
Vision
We strive to be THE benchmark of procurement exhibiting a high degree of excellence in how we inspire, lead, and challenge the way Procurement enables mission and customer success.
Values
Partnership – teamwork, cooperation, collaboration, communication, active inclusion, demonstrate ownership, internships, mentorship, create and maintain mutually beneficial relationships
Reliability – integrity, responsive, consistency, accuracy, dependable, knowledgeable, trustworthy, honesty
Intellectual Curiosity – professional development, innovative performance and technology, continuous learning and improvement, knowledge sharing, internships, mentorships, benchmarking
Customer Success – understand and anticipate internal customer needs, alignment to mission and purpose, adaptability in a dynamic world
Excellence – professionalism, transparency, effective communication, strive to exceed expectations
Leadership Team
Ron Brade joined the University of North Texas System in October 2020 after 29 years working for the federal government, most recently serving as the Associate Center Director for the NASA Ames Research Center in California’s “Silicon Valley.” He provides strategic direction, leadership and supervision of strategic sourcing, contracts management, procure-to-pay functions, and the Historically Underutilized Business program across UNT System. He implemented an organizational restructuring of UNT System’s procurement operation designed to create sustainable efficiencies that will help to counter the financial challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ron holds a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech, a master’s in public administration concentrating in Procurement and Contracting from the George Washington University and is a graduate of Harvard University’s prestigious Senior Executive Fellows Program.